# broc
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbɾɔk]

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin broccus.

#### Noun

broc m (plural brocs)
* spout
* stick
* trifle
* (in the plural) excuses, pretexts
    No fotem, que no estic per brocs. ― Let's not fuck around, I'm not in the mood for excuses.

##### Synonyms

* (excuse): romanço

##### Related terms

* broca

#### Further reading

* “broc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “broc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
* “broc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

broc
* (Balearic) first-person singular present indicative of brocar

## French
### Etymology

Uncertain, perhaps borrowed from Old Provençal broc, related to Italian brocca (“jug”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʁo/
** Audio (Lyon):(file)
* IPA: /bʁɔ/ (older, now chiefly Belgium)
* IPA: /bʁɔk/ (nonstandard, but sometimes heard; compare croc)
** Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -o, -ɔ, -ɔk

### Noun

broc m (plural brocs)
* ewer, pitcher

### Further reading

* “broc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
* broc (récipient) on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{fr}$

## Irish
### Etymology

From Middle Irish brocc, from Proto-Celtic *brokkos (“badger”) (compare Welsh broch).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bˠɾˠɔk/

### Noun

broc m (genitive singular broic, nominative plural broic)
* badger

#### Declension

First declension

#### Derived terms

* broc meala (“honey badger”)
* brocach (“badger den, sett”)

### References

* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 90

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “broc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “broc”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “broc”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

## Manx
### Noun

broc m (genitive singular broc, plural brockyn)
* Alternative form of brock

### Mutation
## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /broːk/

### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *brōk.

#### Noun

brōc f
* (in the plural) underpants; see brēċ
* (euphemistic) butt

##### Descendants

* Middle English: brek, breke, brech, breche, breech (all from the plural)
** English: breech, breeches, britches

### Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *brōk (etymology 2).

#### Noun

brōc m
* brook

##### Descendants

* Middle English: brook
** English: brook
** Scots: broke, bruke

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

broc m
* Alternative form of brocc

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

brōc ?
* labour, toil
* affliction
* disease

##### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “bróc”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Middle Irish brocc. Cognates include Irish broc and Manx broc.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɾɔʰk/
* Hyphenation: broc

### Noun

broc m (genitive singular bruic, plural bruic)
* badger (Meles meles)
* (obsolete) Synonym of faol (“wolf”)

#### Declension

$^✝$ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

#### Derived terms

* broc-lann
* brocair

### References

* Colin Mark (2003) “broc”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 93

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /brɔk/

### Etymology 1

From Middle English broce (“brushwood, fragment”), from Old English gebroc (“fragment”), from brecan (“to break”).

#### Noun

broc m (uncountable)
* sea wrack, driftwood

##### Derived terms

* broc môr (“driftwood”)

### Etymology 2

From Irish broc (“grey, mottled, flecked”) or English brock (“(inferior) horse, trotter”).

#### Adjective

broc (feminine singular broc, plural broc, equative mor froc, comparative mwy broc, superlative mwyaf broc)
* roan (of a horse)

##### Derived terms

* brocfelyn (“chestnut roan, strawberry roan”)
* brocgoch (“bay roan, red roan”)
* broclas (“blue roan, grey roan”)
* brocwinau (“bay roan, red roan”)

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “broc”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies